Folding bed-lounge



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FOLDING BED LOUNGE. No. 334,550. Patented Jan. 19, 1886.

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FRANCIS H. WALKER, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

FOLDING BED-LOUNGE.

senoirercerron teeming part of Leiters Pai-.ent No, 334,550, dated January 19, ieee.

Application filed May 5, 1885. Serial No. 164,461. (No model.)

T all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANCIS H. WALKER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook andState of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin FoldingBed-Lounges, of which the following is a specification. Y

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating my invention, Figure l is a plan view showing my improved bed-lounge thrown fully open. Fig. 2 is a section in the lines x x of Fig. 1. Fig. 8 is a section in the line y y of Fig. l, the bed-lounge being closed. Fig. 4 is a detail View showing the mode of connection of the rear movable web-rail with the web-rail swinging bar and the catch-rest of the movable web-rail. Fig. 'shows one of the catch-rests in detail with one of the pintles of the web-rail about to seat itself in the catch, wherein it is locked when the lounge is fully hrlown open and ready to be occupied as a In the drawings, A indicates the main stationary frame of the bed-lounge with a projecting frame, A', to form a head-rest; and B nails, as e', or other suitable fastenings.

a folding frame connected to the main frame by lhinges b, and provided with a swinging head-rest frame, as B',which is connected with the head-rest frame A by hinges, as b. Ordinary folding legs, as c, are provided, as shown,.for sustaining the folding portion B when the latter is thrown open, as in Figs. l and 2, whilethe folding head--rest frame B has a lap-plate, d, which rests upon the headrail d of the frame B, thus keeping the headrest frame in proper relative position with the frame B when the two are thrown open as in said gures.

' As signified in Figs. land 2, e is a web-bar extending along nearly the whole length of the outer bar of the swinging frame B, and this web-bar eis provided with alongitudinal kerf, in which one of the longitudinal edges of the woven-wire web bed-bottom M, which forms the elastic bed-bottom of the bed-lounge, is inserted, as shown, and confined therein by The opposite longitudinal edge of the web M is in like manner confined in a swinging or movable longitudinal back bar, M', which at either end is provided with a metal cap, m, as shown, from which a catch-pin, m', projects, and on which'a swinging loe-king bar,- mz, freely articulates, as will be presently described. This bar m2, as will be clearly seen in det-ail view, Fig. 4, is held in position upon the pintle m', and so as to articulate on said pintle by being confined between the outer surface, t, of said cap m and the inner surface of the catch-rest R, tiXedly applied to the head and foot rails of the stationary frame A, as shown, there being two swinging bars, as m2, in connection with the back bar, M', one at each end, as shown in Fig. l. f

As shown in the figures, m3 is a metal plate .secured to the head and foot rails of the stationary frame A, and this plate is provided with a headed pin, o, which passes through a longitudinal slot, o', in the rear end of the bar m2, so that this bar may have endwise movement upon said headed pin. During such movement a pintle, as o2, projecting from the plate m3 just above the upper edge of the bar m2, serves to give steady movement to the bar, while the extreme rear end of the bar is pressed upon by a spring, as w, applied to the front portion of the frame A, as shown. Thus,when the folding frame B is thrown up from its closed position shown in Fig. 3 to an n nfolded position, indicated by dotted lines z z in Fig. 2, the draw 7 or strain of the wovenweb fabric M upon the back bar, M', will cause it to rise from its position shown in Fig. 3 to its position shown in Fig. 2, whereupon if the folding frame B is still further depressed and forced down to its fully-open position, shown in Fig. 2, the pintles in of the bar M will be drawn fully up and into the catch-recesses m4 of the catch-rests R, and therein held with the woven web M stretched into position for occupancy as a bed-bottom. During this act the pintles fm of the bar M will travel up along the vertical edge m5 of the catch-rests R, lwhile at the lsame time the swinging bars m2 will be thrust back against the springs w, said bars traveling on the headed pins 'u in the longitudinal slots o. Thus when the frame lB is thrown into the fully-opened condition shown in Figs. l and 2, the bar e, to which one edge of the web M is secured, will be depressed to a longitudinal plane below that of the bar M, to which the opposite end of the web is applied, while centrally and longitudinally the web will rest upon the series of coil- ICOl springs p of the longitudinal bar p of the folding frame B, and thus,while in such condition, the tension ofthe web will aet to hold or lock the folding frame open, and during such condition the pintles m of the bar M will be held firmly at rest in the catch-recesses m" of the catch-rests R. During all the time the bedlounge is fully unfolded the tension of the springs w constantly tend to thrust forward the swinging bars me, and when the operator lifts the folding frame B from its fully-opened condition shown, that instant the springs t0 thrust forward the swinging bars and dislodge their pintles m from the catch-rests mwhcreupon the bar M will drop down to its position shown in Fig. 3 during` the closing of the bed-lounge, shown in said figure, and with the bedclothing of the bed-lounge encompassed by the woven web M, the base portion of which now lies almost even with the iioor upon a suitable webbing, r", thus affording ample room for the bedelothes.

AS shown in Fig. 3, the inner longitudinal rail of the folding frame is provided with a hinged supporting-rod, L, which rests upon a bracket or support, as Z, attached to the in ner surface of the front longitudinal bar of the stationary frame A, and midway of the length of said bar, and thus when the. bed-lounge is closed, as shown in Fig. 8. affords a support to the front yortion ofthe folded frame B.

I am aware of the patent granted Stewart, No. 248,061. dated October 11, 1881, for iinprovement in wardrobe-bedsteads, and make no claim for the devices therein claimed. Neither do I in this application claim any of the devices claimed in my application fora patent for improvement in a lounge or folding bed, No. 145,690, tiled October 1G, 1831, and

in my application for a patent for a bed-lounge filed May 15, 1885. No. 165,630, nor in any other application filed prior to this.

What I claim as my invention is- 1. rIhe combination, with a folding loungebedstead frame comprising the sections A and B, liointed together by hinges I) b, of the bedsupporting bottom )L fastened to section B of said frame, and having a rising-and-falling back bar, M', provided at cach end with a pivot catch-pin. on', the catch-rests B, attached u to the head and foot pieces ofsection A of the frame, and the swinging and sliding lockingbars 111% m2, pivotcd to bar M by the Said pivot catchpins, and provided with longitudinal slols yv', and connected by said slots and a plate having pins e to the section A of the frame, substanl ially as and for the purpose described.

2. The combination ol' the hinged supporting-rod L, bracket Z, folding frame B, and stationary frame A, substantially as and for the purpose described.

3. Thecombination,with the folding loungebedstead frames A and B and bottom M, having rising-and-falling bar M, of the catch-rests R, swinging and sliding bars m2, having slots v', plates in, having pins o, springs 10, and controlling-pins e, substantially as described.

Ai. The combination, with the folding loungebedslicad frames A and B and bottom M, having rising-and-lalling bar M', 0f the catch-rests B. swinging and sliding bars m, having slots fo, pins e, and unlatchingsprings w, substantially as and for the purpose described.

FRAN CIS H. WALKER.

\Vitnesscs:

E. 1t. VFALKER, Dianna WALKER. 

